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Reddit is Coming Back Online After Major Outage
Update: Reddit says on its status page that a fix for the problem has been deployed and the site should be coming back up for everyone. It’s not just you. Reddit is suffering an outage that’s impacting tens of thousands of people, according to Down Detector this morning. And it’s not clear when the site…
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Reddit Removes Ability to Shun Targeted Ads Based on Your Upvotes
Reddit said it was “simplifying” its ad privacy options by removing the ability to ignore targeted ads based on what communities you join, which posts you upvote or downvote, and how you spend your time on the platform. On Wednesday, Reddit posted to its r/reddit subreddit that over the next few weeks the site will…
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Reddit’s Newest Offense: Making Its iOS App Icon Ugly as Hell
It is entirely possible that we are witnessing the death of one of the internet’s favorite social media platforms in real-time. After charging for access to its API and attempting to squash subsequent protests via interviews with the hare-brained CEO, Reddit has now made its iOS app icon into a tacky, 8-bit monstrosity. Yesterday, iOS…
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Reddit Threatens Subs to Go Public Again, or Else…
The site has put forward a deadline for reopening as key metrics take a hit.